APPE NT) IX. 



THE subjects treated of in this work are so much discussed 

 and so rapidly changing in their scientific aspects, that while 

 the sheets were passing through the press many new points 

 have presented themselves. A few only of special interest, 

 more particularly with reference to American facts, will be 

 here noticed. 



ADDRESS or DR. TYLOR. 



Some of the latest aspects of the subject are presented in 

 Dr. Tylor's able address before the Department of Anthropo- 

 logy of the British Association (August, 1879). He is struck, 

 in looking back, with the fact that many of the most important 

 causes of change in language, physical features and other 

 properties of man, must have done their chief work " in times 

 before history began." But history, as he understands it, 

 extends back only to the rise of the old Oriental monarchies,, 

 say 2000 to 2500 B.C. He takes no note of antediluvian 

 history, though this is vouched for not only by the record of 

 Genesis, but now by the lately disinterred records of other 

 Eastern nations, as well as by almost universal tradition. 

 This antediluvian age, covering at least twenty centuries, 

 must on every account have been more fertile of change than 

 any following period of the same duration, and judging from 

 the state of the arts at the dawn of post-diluvian history, must 

 have been more fertile of invention and discovery than the 

 whole time that has since elapsed. The neglect of these facts, 

 as well as inattention to the geological evidence of abrupt 

 changes of the earth's surface, before and since the introduc- 

 tion of man, greatly influences much of the reasoning of 

 anthropologists. Tylor also directs attention to the fact, that 

 the swarthy Turanian races are the founders of civilization; 



